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its heels on climate change into a placement of climate leadership. While Australia's previous Conservative administration devoted to a net zero 2050 target, it

Australian authorities have rallied behind what is arguably the largest solar-plus-storage project to be conceived in the world’s history. Over the weekend, Northern Territory first minister Michael Gunner confirmed his government has granted major project status to a scheme mixing 10GW of solar with 20-30GWh of storage. Designed with costs of US$20 billion in mind, the project is slated for construction in Tennant Creek, a town in central Northern Australia.  The scheme is the brainchild of Singapore’s SunCable, which wants to use it to shore up the Asian state-city’s power system and limit its over-reliance on natural gas imports.   The developer intends to set up a 3,800 km high-voltage direct current submarine cable to transfer most of the installation’s output to Singapore, where it could cover 20% of power needs. The plan, however, is to also link the mega-installation to Australia’s own electricity grid so that it can supply Northern Territory capital Darwin and others. Speaking to local media, first minister Gunner said talks will soon begin with SunCable on a project development agreement, which will set the scene for environmental assessments and others. Rebate chaos pushes solar to Melbourne's streets Meanwhile, in Australia’s south-east state of Victoria, the solar industry turned up the heat on the government over controversial rationing of state financial aid.    Australia’s Smart Energy Council and others have convened a rally outside the state parliament in Melbourne on Thursday, to protest the recent hold-up of so-called solar rebates. The incentive offers up to AU$2,225 (US$1,566) to homeowners and rental properties to offset solar installation costs, as part of Victoria’s Solar Homes programme. Oversubscription saw the government temporarily freeze the scheme in April, opening again to applications on 1 July. Successive monthly caps of 3,333 were quickly filled up. John Grimes, CEO at the Smart Energy Council, said the rationing of rebates has caused “tremendous amount of pain”, forcing local firms to turn to lay-offs as losses become "huge".  “The industry has become a solar coaster…that’s no way to plan the rollout of a major program such as this,” said Grimes, adding that Victoria’s PV roll-out has slowed by 30% since April. In Victoria, the ramping up of rhetoric comes just a month after the state-linked what was billed as Australia’s largest solar-plus-storage project to date, a Tesla-powered 25MW/50MWh system. See here for more information on Victoria's solar rebates and here for Smart Energy Council's statement

alone have seen Neoen secure a planning nod for a 275MW triple hybrid in Australia and NextEra enlist a power cooperative as the offtaker of a 700MW Oklahoma

to trade renewables with each other.”   In this regard, an Australian startup, Power Ledger, announced on December 1, 2016, the launching of

region comes to join existing operations in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia, with a Southeast Asian solar business formally launched in 2016.

the light range go extra by many solar modern technologies, yet researchers in Australia as well as the United States are pressing the borders of PV cell sensitivity,

Their plan is to later target other markets, such as offgrid releases in Australia. Marketed as ZCell and ZBM2, Redflow zinc-bromine flow batteries are made for

biggest operating battery storage system, the Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, includes batteries made by the electrical carmaker and also is informally

our faithful customer base in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy as well as Australia, softened the decrease in U.S. demand this previous

led by Australia National University (ANU) have made a number of new monitorings on the destruction habits of passivation layers in silicon solar cells.

along with a huge group of coworkers in Sweden, the Czech Republic, Japan, Australia, China and the United States, and also led by Professor Feng Gao of LiU,

constructed by Meton Energy, a joint venture of RWE Renewables Europe and Australia and also PPC Renewables. The PPAs include three project-specific offtake

now stands at 5 GW of greenfield projects across the US, UK, Spain, Italy, Australia, and Mexico. The company's acquisitions in Mexico reflect its commitment to

(accessed Feb. 11, 2021). [6] “Off-grid in Australia: Unlimited Energy and Tesvolt discuss their award-winning project – pv

Netherlands has actually produced markets to capture distributed flexibility. Australia's obstacle An outcome of its distributed population, rough setting, aging